scrap

Example Sentences

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Scrap aluminum can help, but that won’t be enough.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

On a July day in 2021 that would become blazing hot, dozens of community volunteers gathered before sunrise at the Scrap Exchange, a reuse center for art materials in Durham, N.C.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2023

The couple, who run Tin Man Scrap in Buxton, said they had the idea for a second-hand wedding when they began to spot things they liked among the waste people were dumping.

From BBC • May 11, 2023

Scrap metal recyclers and junk dealers will have to document how they are buying catalytic converters and from whom, as a way to ensure they’re doing business only with owners and qualified sellers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2022

“I got some business to take care of. Scrap will be here.”

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas